Saturday, December 1, 2012

Friday: 11 months

Isaac is 11 months today!  I just realized I didn't get the normal shots on the quilt, so I'll try to get those tomorrow.

Here we have him sitting nicely for some pictures.  Some of them include his current favorite toy, jingle balls. Since it was Christmas I put some lights around him too...they turned out well but not quite like I had envisioned.
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Here he is with his monkey.
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Playing with the monkey
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And with the puzzle.
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Isaac has started to get a little fussier with food.  I gave him some carrots and bananas the other day and he wouldn't eat them.  He's started throwing them on the ground, which is rather annoying.  However, we've tried some new foods that he has enjoyed (curry with lots of rice, black bean soup) and he still loves his peas and cottage cheese.

He is easily pulling himself up and cruising around the furniture.  He's going up stairs faster and pointing at everything.  He enjoys taking his socks off.

He is sleeping until about 5-6am, wakes up to eat and then goes back to sleep until 7:30-8.  I sometimes feel like we should get rid of that last feeding, but I'm afraid it would mean getting up earlier again and I really like this sleeping in.  Isaac is down to two naps, and they're usually at least an hour.

Only one more month until he turns one!  The year has flown.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Thursday: baby food

Well, I wanted to document some of my experiences with making baby food.  And I thought maybe someone else would want to see.  A "1" is hard or low while a "5" is easy or good.  edit: cost effectiveness refers to making the food vs. buying a similar, premade baby food.  n/a means that there wasn't anything close enough to compare it to.

mashed food and purees.

easy of making cost effectiveness notes
apples 2 3
asparagus 3 n/a
avacado 5 n/a  freezing seems ok
banana 5 5 only from fresh




carrots 4 3 don't bake
cauliflower 4 n/a
chicken and parsnip 3 n/a




pears 2 3
peas n/a n/a
plums 2 4
potatoes, mashed 3 n/a reheat with water



squash, butternut 4 5
sweet potato 4 5
watermelon 2 n/a too runny
zuchinni and summer squash 5 n/a


finger food
easy of making eating cost effectiveness notes
apples n/a n/a n/a haven't gotten
soft enough yet





avacado 5 4 n/a messy
banana 5 5 4
black beans (from soup) 5 5 n/a
blueberries, fresh 5 5 1
blueberries, frozen 5 1 4 too red…
ok with quinoa
carrots 4 5 5





cottage cheese 5 4 n/a messy
kiwi 5 5 n/a
peaches, fresh 4 5 ? bake to remove peel
peaches, frozen 4 3 ? kind of hard
pears 2 4 2 messy from frozen
peas 5 5 5 canned
plums 2 1 ? too red





raspberries, frozen 5 1 n/a messy
rice 3 3 n/a keeps Isaac busy,
only half ends up in
mouth
shredded cheese 5 3 n/a keeps Isaac busy,
only half ends up in
mouth
spagehtti 4 3 n/a keeps Isaac busy,
only half ends up in
mouth
squash, butternut 4 5 5
sweet potato 4 5 5





zuchinni and summer squash 5 3 n/a one batch good,
one batch skin too hard

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Wednesday: shopping for Isaac

Today Ben went shopping for Isaac.

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It looks like he found a good one. :)

Monday, November 26, 2012

Monday: Ben

Tonight we celebrated Ben's birthday.

We went to Wild Chef for dinner.  Isaac seemed concerned about the flames, but didn't have any problems.



Sunday, November 25, 2012

Sunday: yesterday

Yesterday we put up the Christmas tree and I haven't taken a picture of it yet.  Isaac was rather uninterested in it.  While it was kind of disappointing it will probably be a blessing as he won't try to yank it down.  Also, the little amount of snow that we had all melted today. :( photo

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Saturday: more pictures

Ben's aunt took some great pictures for us on Thanksgiving...
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Friday: weeks 45-47

Isaac is still growing!  It's harder to get pictures of him some weeks...he moves too much.

week 45:
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week 46:
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week 47 (pajama day!  It meant he couldn't take off his socks, although he still tried a few times.)
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